Martha.net

Failboat

I wasn’t aware I had dropped off the face of the earth until I started moving things around for this week’s posts. (I use the plug-in WordPress Editorial Calendar to manage my posts. It’s a great way to make sure I’ve filled in the all the gaps!)

In order to keep the calendar organized, I move all draft posts a year into the future. This keeps me from misposting if I hit the wrong button and makes for easy sorting. Once posts are finalized, I fix the dates when I schedule them.

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The wild and wooly world of the internet is like playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon– the point isn’t where you are, but where you can go from here to that matters.

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Days of Yore

Reformatting the past is a pain in the bleepidty.

Believe it or not, I’m still sorting through the last 2000+ post LiveJournal import (207 left to go!). I’ve done the easy bit, deleting the memes and fan fiction and pointless posts, now I’m slogging my way through changing the tags and the categories and the formatting… and making sure there aren’t any duplicates from Unquiet Bones. Continue reading →

Spamspamspam

I had the website set to moderate all comments, but after reading a few other blogs that highly objected to the practice– I turned it off.

And then immediately turned it on again for anything with one or more links in the comment.

Even after filtering out all the posts with links, the posts mentioning liveinternet.ru, article, or adultadsusa.com… I’m still getting a LOT of spam. There are apparently a lot of people (or bots) out there with nothing better to do than try and get their comments on random blogs so they get backlinks.

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Much like Conjunction Junction (video), only without the singing. Or the grammar lessons.

… Although I could probably come up with a theme song if I tried hard enough. *hums*

The Shame

But no, today’s post is about my lack of posting– or rather: my lack of finishing posts. I am easily distracted and thus have a habit of starting posts, getting a few sentences in and then alt-tab’ing out and getting lost on a wild tangent. It’s a habit I hadn’t spent a lot of time worrying about until I sat down this morning to plan out a posting schedule for next week.

I have 35 drafts sitting in the Posts folder already and just came back from a rather productive stint at Panera’s where I came up with another sixty-four topics. Add to that the fact I’ve been collecting post ideas in a small notebook since early March and you have a rather impressive snowball of Things To Write About(tm).

Most of which, the savvy reader will have sussed, I have not actually ever written about.
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I’m playing around with the code behind the site… Again.

So if, erm, things don’t quite work– I’m on it! (For varying successful values of ‘on it’. Alas.)

Picture Vaugely Related

I have more or less sorted out the blogs into the correct categories, although I wished I’d taken the time to rename the duplications before I did the imports. (The Fantasy category in Unquiet Bones overlapped with Custom-Models.com and I’m still not sure everyone is in the right place.) Good things to know for next time, I suppose.

Amusingly most of the headaches have come from the fact that Unquiet Bones was an import of multiple LiveJournal accounts and there are a lot of things untagged from that consolidation. Most annoying of which are the writing posts from Dogs of the Never Never, since there are roughly 85 of them I still need to tag. Still out of 455 posts, I suppose it isn’t too bad that less than a forth of them need work.

Otherwise I’m just working my way slowly back through the pages making sure everything is in the right category and has the right formatting. Since the WordPress directories were in different places on the various blogs, the domain forwarding isn’t pitch perfect. Thankfully my addiction to putting pictures in blog posts is a recent failing, so there aren’t as many that need relinking.

Now I just need to work on getting more posts into the pipeline… *wanders off to find good blog topics*

Blog Cascade

My husband made a very good point earlier today that has had me breaking out the note-cards and playing around with possibilities. He mentioned that he thought it would make more sense if I just combined everything into one blog instead of splitting things out into separate blogs.

Having one blog would mean less logging in and out of the various WordPress Dashboards. Less password and username forgetfulness. Less fiddling with the nine thousand email addresses. Less addon and theme updates to install. Less backups to store. Less tracking tools to manage. Basically, less headaches in general.

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Hello world!

Alright, computer jokes aside this is the first official post to the new and improved Martha.net website. This has been my default home sweet home on the web since 1998 and I’ve been playing around with this domain for a while trying to figure out it’s purpose in life.

This used to be my one-stop shop for all things Martha-related, but over the years as my hobbies have migrated to their own websites it has turned into nothing more than a links page… and an outdated links page at that. There’s nothing more depressing than Googling oneself prior to job-hunting and being unimpressed.

So this is something new– a links page that’s more of an RSS feed of everything going on in my life. It’s also an inspiration for me to get in the habit of posting regularly to the various other websites I run. Won’t be an overnight success, but I aim to stick with it this time until it’s solid. I’m hoping to hammer out an official posting schedule by the end of the month, but we’ll see how it rolls.

Welcome to the chaos!